Springer Third World Diseases: 7 (Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 7)

Product Description This book collects essays on many diseases that persistently affect Third World populations, offering a portrait of the current state of the battle against tuberculosis, dengue fever, malaria, kinetoplastid parasites and secretory diarrhea, among others. From the Back Cover Federico Gomez de las Heras: Overview of Neglected Tropical Diseases Gwendolyn A. Marriner • Amit Nayyar • Eugene Uh • Sharon Y. Wong • Tathagata Mukherjee • Laura E. Via • Matthew Carroll • Rachel L. Edwards • Todd D. Gruber • Inhee Choi • Jinwoo Lee • Kriti Arora • Kathleen D. England • Helena I.M. Boshoff • Clifton E. Barry III: The Medicinal Chemistry of Tuberculosis Chemotherapy Jeremy N. Burrows • David Waterson: Discovering New Medicines to Control and Eradicate Malaria Tomas von Geldern • Michael Oscar Harhay • Ivan Scandale • Robert Don: Kinetoplastid Parasites Pei-Yong Shi • Zheng Yin • Shahul Nilar • Thomas H. Keller: Dengue Drug Discovery Dan Marquess: Recent Advances in Discovery and Development of Medicines for the Treatment of Secretory Diarrhea in the Developing World